Salons

Haruki Eda
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Collective Memory and Community Solidarity in the Korean Diaspora

Haruki will discuss how diasporic Koreans produce counter-hegemonic collective memory through site visits, storytelling, and public memorials related to historical atrocities and ongoing peace struggles.

Haruki Eda (he/they) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCCS, where he teaches on race/ethnicity, globalization and development, Asian American communities, war and social change, and qualitative research. medieval ostriches, maps and digital technology.

Haruki’s research interests include community organizing, ethnic identity, nationalism, and gender/sexuality, in the geopolitical context of East Asia and North America. His book project examines the Korean diaspora’s role in peace, reunification, and liberation from queer/feminist perspectives.

Josh Vandiver
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

What is Masculinism?

Are we witnessing the emergence of a new ideology centering men and masculinities? We consider examples of masculinism ranging from the online “manosphere” to Supreme Court jurisprudence. Dr Josh Vandiver is an assistant professor of Political Science at UCCS. A fifth-generation Coloradan, he completed his undergraduate training at Harvard College and his doctorate at Princeton University.

Josh Vandiver is an assistant professor of Political Science at UCCS. A fifth-generation Coloradan, he completed his undergraduate training at Harvard College and his doctorate at Princeton University.

Josh Vandiver researches in the areas of political theory, history of political thought, and gender studies with a focus on radical movements and thinkers. 

Monet Reynoso 
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Death & Diploma Mills: Liberatory Suicide Prevention for Veterans in Contemporary America  

Monet will discuss how focuses on mental health, higher education and the politics of refusal in a post-truth society. Are we witnessing the emergence of a new ideology centering men and masculinities? We consider examples of masculinism ranging from the online “manosphere” to Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Originally from Tempe, AZ, Nina Monet Reynoso moved to Los Angeles to study psychology at Occidental College where she graduated in 2016. Following a brief stint in finance, she decided that a career in education was more aligned with her values and went for her MA in Higher Education at UCLA in 2017. Dr. Reynoso completed their PhD in Social Sciences and Comparative Education with Dr. Daniel Solórzano as their advisor in the fall of 2022. They began teaching at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Spring 2024 in the department of Women's and Ethnic Studies (WEST) as an expert in Black studies. Her classes highlight elements of international and domestic military history, the GI Bill, Black feminisms, critical media studies, and more. When Dr. Reynoso is not teaching, they are often spending time in the kitchen, at the pottery wheel, or planning their next trip.

Dr. Reynoso’s research interests center around the military-industrial-higher-education-complex and its translation to popular media. Research interests also include ontologies of abolition, marronage, and fugitivity within spaces of marginality (i.e. fragging, wildcat strikes, etc.).

Haruki Eda
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Collective Memory and Community Solidarity in the Korean Diaspora

Evan Taparata
Assistant Professor
Department of History
“Refuge of Oppression:” Abolitionist Perspectives on the United States as a Place of Refuge

Fernando Feliu-Moggi
Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures, Professor of Spanish
Department of Languages and Cultures
The Chief and the Governor: Material Culture and Comanche/Spanish Diplomacy in Late 18th Century New Mexico

Helen Davies
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Ghost Cameras, invisible inks and forgotten texts: the next generation of multispectral imaging to recover lost documents

Elena Svetieva
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication / Director of Leadership Communication
Barriers to Honesty in Communication - What it Means for Leadership, Life, and Work

Haleh Abghari
Senior Instructor
Department of Visual and Performing Arts/ Director of Voice
Voices without Borders

Kristen Galvin
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual and Preforming Arts/ Director of Art History
Hypernostalgia in Contemporary American Visual Culture

Dylan M. Harris
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Studies
Climate Consciousness: Empire, Energy, Progress

George Bayuga
Instructor
Department of Anthropology
Educational failure, Christianity, and the Project of Teaching Culture in the Age of TikTok
 

Ilaheva Tua’one
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Women’s & Ethnic Studies
Nocturnal Revelling: The HMS Dolphin, The Story of the Ship that Lost Its Integrity

Max Shulman
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual and Performing Arts- Theater
Cab Calloway And The Jive Drug

Susan Vandagriff
Kraemer Family Library
Exploring Setting and Narrative in Hemingway's "Wine of Wyoming"

Colin Lewis
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Confucian Ritual and Moral Education

Steven Pittz
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Is Wonder a Liberal Virtue?

Esther Lamidi
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Changing Times, Changing Families: Marital Status and Health in an Era of Rapid Family Changes

Jennifer Kling
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice Without Going to War

Stephen Carter
Assistant Professor
Department of English 
War non War
 

Stephen Suh
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Women & Ethnic Studies
Nostalgic For The Unfamiliar: The Ethnic Return Migration of Korean Americans

 

Karin Larkin
Assistant Professor and Curator
Department of Anthropology
Decolonizing the Ludlow Massacre Site

David Diamond
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Our Secular Eighteenth Century